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Pictures or it didn't happen.

Igbo = Ibola Chi

wesley80: Not only Nigerians suffer demonic attacks it is just as rampant in Africa and when it exists in the West, people like you have learnt to rationalize it using your carnal minds hence you hear stuff like "illusions", alien abductions and stuff. Is it not funny people are more inclined to believe aliens fly in and take them for a ride than Spiritual things actually existing simply because only the former can be rationalized?
On why the experience seems to be more common in Africa, you have to appreciate the level with which our people flirt with spiritism. This has created a fertile ground for the spread of negative powers that desire human worship and are locked in the battle for the Soul of man.
I can't speak highly enough of TB Joshua's Emmanuel TV, watching his station has completely revolutionized my Spiritual life and brought a lot of things closer to reality and I'll recommend most of you commenting here watch at least ONE of his services before continuing your arguments. Its happening everyday to ordinary people, denying it is just absurd.

Sorry, but I believe this whole spiritual husband thing is nonsense and many pastors are businessmen, but to each their own.

Ohafia

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"The interior of an Obu meeting house in Asaga village showing five large life-sized figures (four along the right hand side of the wall and one in the back of the photograph). The figures are standing on a raised platform with their legs slightly bent at the knees. Each is dressed in a cotton waist cloth. Each figure is different; the closest is holding a stick, the figure next to him is a woman decorated with leg rings around her ankles and calves, then two males who are weraing hats and one is holidng a rifle. The figure on the back wall is male and he is holding a head in one hand and a machete in the other. In the cenre is a thick beam holding the roof up. The walls are painted in decorative designs and in different coloured pigments.
G. I. Jones."

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“This is of interest as it shows the manner of dressing the back hair. Many of the women plait in false hair, which is collected by the prospective husband on betrothal. He not only contributes his own hair, but also purchases more to make up the required quantity, since the marriage may not be consummated until the hair is dressed in the approved manner, viz., low down on the neck as shown, or in two long braids.” (p.163)

1904. Whitehouse, A.A. and C. H. Read. “Nigeria. Note on the “Mbari” Festival of the Natives of the Ibo Country.” MAN. A Monthly Record of Anthropological Science, Vol. IV, No. 106."

This isn't true because cities like Monrovia, Liberia, and other war-torn of former war-torn cities around Africa and some other parts of the world are worse.

yemstok: OLORIBURUKU NI WON! This oyinbo people with racism sef

No.

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"The central pillar of a ruined Ohafia Obu house
G. I. Jones, early 20th century."

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"The verandah of an Obu house in Ohafia showing four figures (two pairs of male and female wooden statues) on either side of the door. The figures are large (life-size) and are standing on a raised platform; they are painted in different coloured pigments and are dressed in painted cloths and accessories. The walls behind the figures are painted with designs of circles, birds, and other geometric patterns.
G. I. Jones, early 20th century."

PhysicsQED: "World’s Greatest Dictionary Still Gives Wrong Source

The Oxford English Dictionary maintains an old British racist etymology that they seem wedded to, even in the face of modern comparative linguistic evidence from the study of African etymology. The OED still claims the word juju was made up by Africans repeating a French nursery word for toy, namely joujou. This French word is an example of the reduplication of a root that occurs in many Western languages’ nursery words. Jou is the singular imperative of jouer ‘to play.’ So the word for toy means literally ‘play, play’, precisely what a parent offering an infant a new toy might have said long ago. Compare for similarity in using reduplication the English nursery toilet words: poopoo, kaka and doodoo.

Surprise! There is an African Origin of This African Word!

The problem is: there is a perfectly cogent African etymology for the word. Consider the Hausa word for fetish or bad spirit, djudju, with its root not in French. O, for goodness’ sake, wake up, OED! The word was on African tongues centuries before French imperialists showed up in Africa to mess everything up! Hausa, by the way, is one of the principal languages of Nigeria, spoken by nearly twenty million people there, one-fifth of the population. It is also the language of an additional three million people in Niger. Hausa is a Chadic language in the Afro-Asiatic language family. The word juju was noted in English as long ago as 1894 in a book about West Africa.

In the Yoruba language jù means ‘to throw.’ The general West African root is the Chadic etymon ju ‘throw,’ so that juju is ‘throw-throw’ because the amulet was tossed by the witch doctor or thrown from hand to hand as he induced the powerful spirit to enter the object. Then the fetish was thrown on the ground in front of the person seeking a magically charged object. The witch doctor also throws the juju power into a waiting object with his potent spell. If it were a fortune telling, the sorcerer foretold his fate from the way the juju landed in front of the fortune-seeker. For other nefarious purposes, the seeker might also take the object away and use it to perform evil upon another person."

I don't understand why the person who wrote this is offended that the word 'juju' has been claimed to have possibly originated in French, even going to the lengths of calling the dictionary racist. There are obviously other European words in pidgin and even as loans in African languages, so how is it impossible and how would it add anything to the French peoples ego that some random word in pidgin came from French when there are already hundreds of words that originated from French in pidgin.

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"IIsiji wearing calabash face

IIsiji (young adult male initiate) participating in a masquerade for junior age grade members. The initiate is wearing a calabash face mask painted with spots, a raffia headdress attached to a cloth dangling on the back, clothed in a palm frond costume, and holding a long stick. In the background is a thatch and mud building, logs, calabashes and a man in a wrapper to the left. Behind the building are trees and shrubbery. Physical Condition: Over-exposed negative which is now slightly yellowing. Igbo peoples.

G. I. Jones, 1932 - 1939."

FIFA = Fédération Internationale de Football Association.
UEFA = Union of European Football Associations.

I really don't understand why the people in question don't just face issues with the region that just literally called their deified leader a sell-out.

How can they claim that they don't care about Igbo/Biafra people yet they're hurling all sorts of insults they can find. You guys need to find a better way of hiding your bitterness. How can you be more bitter than those who lost 3 million of their people for the shithole? Isn't that just a bummer as Americans would say.

Obiagu1: Nawa o!
Why are Yorubas angry? This love-hate by the Yorubas is really confusing. Can somebody please tell me what they want?

These Nigerians get so emotional over the mention of the east leaving the failed stated. It's like the Igbo are Tina Turner and the rest are Ike. It's almost stalker-like.

Don't mind me, just passing through...

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It's so sad that most of these buildings are gone, and it's not like there are many people who have knowledge to build them again (accurately). And the main reason they're gone is usually because people demolished them on purpose for different reasons.

[quote author=Mr.chippychappy]All these cyber bravado makes me laugh ! You should ask your elders / parents what our over night "brothers" in the south south did during the civil war , From Adaka boro stopping shipment of food and medicine , to the friendly boat paddlers who would turn the boat over once you are in the middle of the water (Back then most igbos couldn't swim) , To the friendly informants who helped the Nigerian army . The Goodluck vote was a political one and even at that what has goodluck done for the south east ? Do you see the sea ports ? the airports , the new niger bridge , the renovation of the old niger bridge ? No , Nothing , Zilch , Nada ! Igbos MUST WATCH this time . We cannot afford to be made scapegoats again . Nzeogwu was an igbo speaking south south man but when $h!t hit the fan they denied THEIR OWN SON and supported the propaganda that it was an "igbo coup" , People like Enahoro (whom i used to think was a saint) was very well involved in the "starvation agenda" . So don't come around with this "IGBOS MUST FIGHT" Bravado . In case you don't know we lost 3MILLION people in the civil war . Thats 3MILLION shy from what Hitler did to the jews , Would you like us to lose 3MILLION more ? The war (if it ever happens) between dokubo and these guys would be fought at our BACKYARD and thats fine by me as long as its not on IGBO LAND! The rules of war has changed now ! As for igbo daughters tending to other needs of the soldiers , we would have an agreement , You don't tamper with what is ours and we don't tamper with what is yours . Besides the pathway we would give the Federal troops would be one FAR AWAY FROM POPULATED COMMUNITIES (A BUSH PATHWAY ). IGBOS MUST NOT FIGHT ANY WAR AGAIN especially when its not worth it . The Federal Government would eventually get weakened by this war regardless of who wins or loses and that's when the IGBOMAN WOULD IMMEDIATELY MAKE HIS DEMANDS and at that time the FG wouldn't want to start what they can't finish.[/quote]I understand what your saying, but there is no way 'northerner's looking for Niger Delta people are going to peacefully pass through Igboland. Anyway it would be interesting seeing what the Igbo there denying their identity would say.

Igbo (una, you plural) and Portuguese (saber, know).

By the way Juju is from French Joujou meaning toy and poto poto is found in other language including mkpoto mkpoto from Igbo.

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"SITE TWO (Plate 50 in Skip Cole’s book on ‘Mbari’)

INNOCENT CHIAGOROM (Informant)
Ulakwo, Obube, Owerri, North LGA, Imo State

OGAZI CHIAGOROM (brother or uncle) was the last keeper of this Mbari but nobody in charge of this Mbari at present, after Christmas the community will appoint another High Priest/keeper. Father built it to the god of Thunder Amodioha who is god of the village, in Ulakwo. There were barren women here so consulted the god to bring them children – the god Amodioha) granted this and therefore an Mbari was built to celebrate. This Mbari was built in 1920."

http://wwwmbari..co.uk/2009/01/111108-site-two.html

geeez: Unfortunately most of your links weren't opening and I've read those reports before and like I said, the HDI will measure other factors like life expectancy and education which are directly related to the quality of healthcare and educational infrastructure which is currently over stretched in the South West as we speak, due to the influx of people into the region.

You may wanna read a recent report on the unemployment rate in Nigeria from the NBS which I just stumbled on this morning below:

https://www.nairaland.com/1016093/statistics-bauchi-zamfara-niger-top

Let's be honest, the only infrastructure that's over stretched in the southwest is in Lagos. The majority are in rural areas farming or doing some other unindustrialised work or trading, so unemployment (which is everywhere) isn't so much to blame for low HDI.

Even if it was, the link to the thread says by unemployment: "Delta 27.2, Imo 26.9, Rivers 25.5 Abia 11.2, Anambra 12.4, Ebonyi 23.1, Enugu 25.2... Ekiti 12.1... Conversely, states considered to have marginal one-digit unemployment rate are Osun, 3.0, Kwara, 7.1, Lagos 8.3 and Oyo 8.9."

So unemployment is highest in the south east and the rest of the Niger Delta, yet the south east still has a higher standard of living. What was the point you were trying to make with the NBS statistics?

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Close-up of Igbo front door.

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West Africa Igbo Village, Frontier Museum, Staunton, Virginia.

So this wall was actually that of a shrine, which explains why it doesn't have a gate or level ground at the entrance.

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"OUTER WALL OF ENCLOSURE OF ALOSE [ALUSI] NGENE AT NIBO.
Anthropological report on the Ibo-speaking peoples of Nigeria, Northcote Thomas (1913)"

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"A base of a wooden pillar with a carved figure. The figure consists of the side profile of a round head with high etched forehead, slit eyes, nose and mouth, rounded neck, rounded upper torso with one arm upright holding a wooden axe.The torso of the figure is carved in a criss cross linear pattern and his knees are bent. Underneath the figure are carved circular desings. In the right hand corner are other carved designs of birds and circular markings. Nri Awka Igbo, early 20th century."

Delta State, Okpanam near Asaba (Aniocha).

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"OSEBLUWE [SHRINE]; ONOKU (OKPANAM).
Anthropological report on the Ibo-speaking peoples of Nigeria, Northcote Thomas (1913)"

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"Wall painting in Okwu village

Wall painting in Okwu village painted by an Annang artist in the style of Ngwomo ghost houses. The wall painting depicts two Ekpe figures in their masquerade costumes bending at the waist and with two curved designs on the top of their heads and a tail. Underneath the paintings is a border of geometric designs.
G.I. Jones, 1932 - 1938"

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"Ekpe Club-house, Bende I[g]bo

Percy Amaury Talbot"

odumchi, here is one (near Umuahia in Abia), ChineyeN, this is very close to Ngwa.

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"Ekpe (leopard society) meeting house

View of Ekpe meeting house in Umuajatta village, Olokoro near Umuahia. The house has a tall thatched roof and a wall painted by an Annang artist in the style of the Ngwomo ghost houses.
G.I. Jones, 1932 - 1938"

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"Igbo Compound (2007)
Two artist commission

We were commissioned to research and create designs from Igbo lexicons and Uli motifs. In painting the walls of the gallery space in the traditional Igbo way, our main aim was to experience a remarkable, yet now neglected, women’s art form and to represent it in its traditional context.

As Uli is a spontaneous art form with no strict governing rules, we were able to work with a sense of our own autonomy and feel that our collaboration has resulted in a vibrant homage to this inspirational art form – A legacy to Uli."

http://www.donnaberry.com/commissions/commissions_001f.html

0:38 Anambra/Enugu area. (Believe it or not, but this is a Gospel song).


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5VN8HuQOWL4